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Serena eyeing Paris after second straight Madrid title Posted: 12 May 2013 08:47 AM PDT May 12, 2013 Reuters file pic of tennis player Serena Williams.MADRID, May 12 — Serena Williams went from winning the Madrid Open to losing in the first round at Roland Garros last year and she is hoping history does not repeat itself after crushing Maria Sharapova to defend her title in Spain on Sunday. Williams has one more tournament to play - the clay event in Rome - before heading to Paris for the French Open, where the 31-year-old American has just the one singles title compared with five at Wimbledon, five at the Australian Open and four at the U.S. Open. Her 6-1 6-4 victory over Sharapova, the current French Open champion, was her 50th career title and her seventh on clay and Williams said she was hungry for a first Roland Garros crown since 2002, when she beat sister Venus in the final. The switch back to red clay from blue in Madrid and the construction of new courts had made the conditions much more similar to Paris, which would help in her preparations, she added. "It definitely plays more like Roland Garros, so I think that's a plus," Williams, who lost to China's Li Na in the semi-finals in Rome in 2012, told a news conference. "It's a little slower than it was last year and plays more like a true clay court. So I think it's great preparation." Williams crashed to a shock defeat to Virginie Razzano in the French Open first round last year and she said she would avoid raising her expectations too high this time. "It is the ultimate challenge. Whether I reach it, I don't know. I'm not going to put that pressure on myself. "I wanted it last year and I didn't get it. So this year I'm just looking forward to Rome and then after that Roland Garros and see what happens. "I feel pressure every day. I think it's a good thing a little bit because it means I'm still really hungry. If I didn't, then I would be like, oh, it doesn't matter." Williams was sidelined for 11 months between 2010 and 2011 with a right foot injury and lung problems and said the experience had made her more motivated. "Every time I play I really relish it more, every time I get out there," she said. "I feel like, honestly, Serena, when are you going to get tired? I don't know. "I don't know if it's because of what I went through. I just feel like I'm so fortunate to be out there and healthy and to have an opportunity to play something, a sport, and be really good at it." — Reuters

Ferrari’s Alonso wins Spanish Grand Prix Posted: 12 May 2013 07:06 AM PDT May 12, 2013 Alonso (foreground) and Vettel attend a news conference ahead of the Spanish F1 Grand Prix at the Circuit de Catalunya in Montmelo, near Barcelona May 9, 2013. — Reuters picBARCELONA, May 12 — Ferrari's Fernando Alonso rewrote the Formula One form book and turned up the heat in the championship battle by winning his home Spanish Grand Prix for the second time on Sunday. The double world champion's second victory of the season, and 32nd of his career, made him the first driver in 23 years of racing at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya to win from outside the top three grid positions. The Spaniard, who started in fifth place with the Mercedes duo of Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton locking out the front row, seized third place through the third corner and had the crowd roaring him on as he led after 13 of the 66 laps. Alonso, who won in Barcelona with Renault in 2006 and also in Valencia last year at the European Grand Prix, took the chequered flag 9.3 seconds ahead of 2007 world champion Kimi Raikkonen in a Lotus. The Finn, in the points for a 22nd successive race and now just two short of Michael Schumacher's all-time record, denied Ferrari a one-two finish with Brazilian Felipe Massa taking a distant third. Red Bull's triple world champion Sebastian Vettel was fourth, 38.2 seconds behind Alonso, and saw his overall lead over Raikkonen cut to four points. After five of the 19 races, the German has 89 points to Raikkonen's 85 and Alonso's 72. Hamilton slipped to fourth overall with 50 points after spending the afternoon falling through the field as Mercedes - as expected - again failed to live up to their electrifying qualifying pace. The 2008 world champion ended up out of the points in 12th and was even heard exclaiming that he had been overtaken by a Williams - driven by last year's winner Pastor Maldonado - as a measure of how much he was struggling. Former champions Williams have failed to score a point in five races with a car lacking aerodynamic performance and Venezuelan Maldonado, who finished 14th after a drive-through penalty, had started way back in 17th place. In a race dictated by the quick-wearing tyres, Alonso pitted four times - the same as Vettel and Massa - while Raikkonen made only three trips to the pitlane. Rosberg, who had also been on pole at the previous race in Bahrain where he finished ninth, led for the first 10 laps before facing up to the inevitable. The German, sixth at the finish behind Red Bull's Mark Webber, was not to lead again as Mexican rookie Esteban Gutierrez took over at the front for two laps in a Sauber amid the pitstops before Alonso asserted himself. Britain's Paul Di Resta was seventh for Force India with McLaren's Jenson Button eighth after starting 14th. Mexican team mate Sergio Perez was ninth and Australian Daniel Ricciardo 10th for Toro Rosso. — Reuters

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Rumours, grief and questions: A virus ravages a Saudi family Posted: 12 May 2013 07:54 AM PDT May 12, 2013 A masked man looks at a model of the coronavirus of SARS at city hall in Taipei in 2003. A SARS epidemic killed more than 800 people in 2003. – AFP picHOFUF (Saudi Arabia), May 12 — On the third day after his father's death from a respiratory infection, Hussein al-Sheikh began to feel feverish. Shortly afterwards, says the 27-year-old Saudi, "I was almost dead". Hussein, who had often visited his father's bedside in his last days, was admitted to intensive care in a hospital in Dhahran, in the Eastern Province oil heartland of Saudi Arabia. Then his brother, Abdullah, and later his sister, Hanan, fell ill, obtaining treatment in hospitals in the nearby oasis district of al-Ahsa. Their father Mohammed, it has since emerged, was probably a victim of what doctors believe was novel coronavirus, the new SARS-like disease that first emerged in the Gulf last year and has gone on to claim 18 lives, nine of them in the kingdom. There is international concern, because it was a virus from the same family of pathogens that triggered the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) that swept the world after starting in Asia in 2003 and killed 775 people. Some of the deaths from the new virus were in Britain and France, including cases in which victims had recently travelled from the Middle East. A total of 34 cases worldwide have been confirmed by blood tests so far. "My temperature was really high, my blood oxygen levels were very low. I was so tired I couldn't walk for days and any kind of activity made me cough," said Hussein, a PhD student who studies in Canada. To avoid spreading infection, he wore a green face mask. Sleepy oasis World Health Organisation (WHO) experts this week visited Ahsa, a sleepy oasis of around a million people, to work with Saudi authorities in investigating the latest outbreak. Much of the attention has focused on the private al-Moosa General Hospital in Hofuf, Ahsa's main town, where many of those infected, including Mohammed al-Sheikh, were treated in the intensive care unit. A senior WHO official said on Sunday it appeared likely that the virus could be passed between people in close contact. WHO Assistant Director-General Keiji Fukuda said, however, that there was no evidence so far that the virus was able to sustain "generalised transmission in communities", a scenario that would raise the spectre of a pandemic. A public health expert, who declined to be identified due to the sensitivity of the matter, said "close contact" in this context meant being in the same small, enclosed space with an infected person for a prolonged period of time. Mohammed al-Sheikh, who suffered from diabetes and had been admitted to hospital with a high fever and low blood sugar never knew what had infected him. He lost consciousness two days before he died. "The doctors said they didn't know what was wrong," said Hussein. "During his first two days in intensive care he could talk and eat by himself and go to the washroom. But then it got worse. He was on the highest level of oxygen and they had to drug him. He left without saying goodbye," he said, referring to his death. In the wake of rumours about the extent of the virus in Ahsa last week, some families of people who were hospitalised said they had been asked by authorities not to speak to media. Separated from the big cities of Riyadh and Dammam by large stretches of desert, Ahsa is a pretty area famous for its date farms. Drive through its dusty villages and goats appear grazing beneath the palm fronds. Between the trees jut pale rocky outcrops carved by the elements into outlandish shapes. Calamity of a father's death There was little sign in the al-Moosa General Hospital's reception area late on Saturday that it was at the centre of a global health concern. Visitors, doctors and nurses hurried down the corridors. Two women in black hijab waited with their babies outside a door marked "vaccination room". Hussein al-Sheikh said he believed his father contracted novel coronavirus in the hospital's intensive care unit and that he then caught it there himself during the hours he spent visiting his father in the days before he died on April 15. But Malek al-Moosa, the hospital's general manager, denied this suggestion and said he believed the patients were in fact exposed to a common source of the virus outside Moosa General Hospital. Fukukda of the WHO said it was not yet clear how the virus was transmitted. Of the four members of the Sheikh family who fell sick, only one, Abdullah al-Sheikh, 33, has so far been tested positive for novel coronavirus. Samples from Mohammed, Hussein and Hanan are still being tested but Moosa said it was likely that they also had the virus. A poster-sized portrait of Mohammed al-Sheikh, a 56-year-old former employee of the national oil company Saudi Aramco, is displayed in the Sheikh family's reception room, where three of his 10 children sat to describe what they call the "calamity" that has hit their family. "Our father's dream was that we should all live in one house with a big garden. He had started building it and finished almost 50 percent. This is just killing us," said Hussein. — Reuters

Smartphone app helps fight obesity, says study Posted: 12 May 2013 03:44 AM PDT May 12, 2013 PARIS, May 12 — Using a simple smartphone application to photograph one's meals is a useful slimming aid for the overweight, according to an experiment reported on Sunday. The app, designed by British doctors, aims at promoting "food memory" so that people recall what they have eaten and are encouraged not to snack on high-calorie treats. The app has three parts: — before eating food or drinking a beverage, the user snaps a picture of what is about to be consumed. — after finishing the meal or drink, the user then looks at the picture that was taken, and answers questions about the consumption experience: "Did you finish it all?" and "How full are you now?" — before further meals, users also look back at the file of pictures that have been taken in the course of the day, and get a text message urging them to remind themselves of what they have already eaten. The researchers recruited 12 overweight or obese men and women and monitored them over four weeks in a small-scale pilot study. The volunteers accessed the app more than five times a day on average, and recorded 2.7 daily "episodes" of eating and drinking. Over the study period, the participants lost 1.5 kilos on average. Six lost a kilo or more and four lost between zero and one kilo, although the other two gained weight, by 100 and 400 grammes respectively. "Raising awareness of eating and weight loss achieved suggest this approach could be fruitful," said University of Liverpool investigator Eric Robinson. "Given that our trial was a very brief intervention with little contact time and no nutritional advice or support, this is a promising finding." The work was unveiled at the European Congress on Obesity in Liverpool, northwestern England. — AFP-Relaxnews

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Jackie Robinson biopic made pitcher who faced him a villain Posted: 11 May 2013 09:45 PM PDT May 12, 2013 Baseball player Fritz Ostermueller is pictured with his wife Faye and daughter in this 1948 family photo released to Reuters by his daughter Sherrill Duesterhaus (centre). - Reuters pic KANSAS CITY, May 12 — When a racist pitcher beans Jackie Robinson in the head in the new movie about the first black man to play major league baseball, Sherrill Duesterhaus wants everybody in the theater to know it's a lie. Duesterhaus' father, Fritz Ostermueller, threw the pitch, but it did not hit Robinson in the head and there is no evidence he uttered, "You don't belong here and you never will," as shown in "42," the Warner Bros. Pictures film that opened in April. "I respect Jackie Robinson, his story is so inspiring and it's good that it is out there, but not at the expense of someone's good name," said Duesterhaus, 66, of Joplin, Missouri. Duesterhaus said she had been warned by a friend that the film was unflattering to her father, who died of cancer at age 50 when she was 11 years old. But the scene in which he taunts Robinson and throws at his head was still a shock, she said. "It just took my breath away," Duesterhaus said. "I thought, 'All these people are sitting here believing this and it didn't happen.' It broke my heart." She said her father was a "kind and loving man" and neither she nor her mother can recall him talking badly about Robinson or any black player. Duesterhaus produced an article from a Pittsburgh newspaper in 1947 in which her father said Robinson crowded the plate, making pitching to him difficult. Ostermueller played for the Pittsburgh Pirates at the time. "I told my wife the night before I pitched that I might have trouble with Robinson - that one of my pitches would hit him, if he didn't move back," Ostermueller said in the article. "I knew, too, some people would say it was intentional. It wasn't at all, but in his first trip to the plate I hit him. After that, he moved back a couple of inches and showed me some respect." TRUTH 'WENT SOUTH' The pitch early in the 1947 season - Robinson's rookie year - sailed toward his head but he deflected it with his arm before falling to the ground, according to several accounts. Robinson's teammates on the Brooklyn Dodgers yelled at Ostermueller, but no fight broke out on the field as shown in the movie. A Warner Bros. spokesman, Paul McGuire, had no comment in response to questions about the film and Duesterhaus' concerns. She said the movie contained other errors, such as showing Ostermueller as a right-handed pitcher, when he threw left-handed. "I enjoyed the movie," Duesterhaus said, "up until the truth went south." Jonathan Eig, author of the 2007 book Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season said Robinson took verbal abuse from some players but there is no indication Ostermueller wanted to drive him out of baseball or threw at him because he was breaking the game's colour barrier. "I was surprised they chose that moment to dramatize the issue and picked Ostermueller of all people to be the villain," Eig said. "Even as I was watching the movie, I wondered if any of Ostermueller's kids will see this and what they would think." Eig said Robinson was known to lean into pitches and swing wildly, making him vulnerable to getting hit. Robinson was hit by more pitches than all but one other National League batter in 1947, and led the league in that category in 1948, according to baseball-reference.com. Robert Butler, a former film critic for the Kansas City Star who now has an online movie review site, said the movie unnecessarily tainted Ostermueller's reputation. "In my opinion, it's the result of bad research, laziness or outright malice," Butler said. "It would have been the easiest thing in the world to give (Ostermueller) a different name in the film. That said, anyone who goes to movies looking for true history is fighting a losing battle." – Reuters

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UK education minister lashes out over ‘Mr Men’ history lessons Posted: 11 May 2013 08:22 PM PDT Author Murakami sends message to Boston BOSTON, May 4 — Japanese author and keen runner Haruki Murakami sent a "personal message" to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing and said he also felt wounded by the attack on his favourite ... Read More

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Borak-borak kosong tentang pilihanraya Posted: 11 May 2013 04:33 PM PDT May 12, 2013 Meor Yusof Aziddin adalah Malaysian folk singer/songwritter yang telah menghasilkan 10 album indipenden sejak tahun 2000 sehingga 2011. Juga penulis untuk buku tentang kehidupan, "Sembang Tepi Jalan" dan "Syurga Yang Hilang." Memblog di www.pestajiwa.net. Berkerjaya sebagai "professional busker" di KL Sentral di bawah pengurusan KTMB sejak tahun 2010 sehingga ke hari ini. 12 MEI — Pilihanraya Umum ke 13 ( PRU 13 ) baru saja berlalu, keputusannya umum rakyat Malaysia sudah tahu. Ada yang suka, ada yang tidak suka, bagi saya itu lumrah dalam peperangan, ada menang, ada kalah. Pun seronok juga mendengar pandangan dari kiri dan kanan, yang menyokong dan yang menentang. Yang sini tak puas hati marahkan yang sana, yang sana pula tak puas hati juga marahkan yang di sini. Sudahnya kita pun tenggelam dalam amarah dan emosi yang tak sudah! Mungkin sampai hujung tahun kita akan marah tak habis-habis sebab kalah! Kesan dan ruginya tetap pada diri kita sendiri. Kadang-kadang kita perlu juga kembali kepada fitrahnya alam dan kejadian, qada dan qadar. Bermuhasabah dan mula menilik diri, cermin diri sendiri. Akhirnya tepuk tangan 3 kali dan lepaskan semua persoalan di angin lalu. Hidup perlu diteruskan! Melayan emosi merugikan diri sendiri. Darah naik dan jantung juga berdegup laju, silap-silap boleh dapat darah tinggi. Kita perlu duduk dalam keadaan rasional dan jangan tegangkan urat saraf dengan hal-hal yang telah sudah. Suka atau tidak, inilah permainan hidup. Tak baguslah kalau sampai dalam hal-hal politik ni kita sampai bermasam-masam muka sesama kita, bergaduh laki-bini sampai bercerai-berai. Hanya kerana ideologi berbeza mengapa kita perlu bermusuh? Bukankah pentas ini untuk kita berkasih-sayang? Saya hanya menganggap segala yang berlaku dalam hidup ini sebagai perkara yang sudah berlaku, umpama membaca buku, helaian demi helaian dan kesannya walau menarik atau tidak, ia tetap sebahagian dari pelengkap sebuah cerita tentang kehidupan. Penting kerana ia sebahagian dari cerita, pun saya tetapkan nilai rasional itu melebihi tahap emosi walau apa juga adegan yang akan terjadi. Cuba kita lihat mereka-mereka yang bertekak dan menjerit marah-marah antara sesama mereka itu di dalam parlimen itu, yang kadang lagak mereka itu umpama budak sekolah yang tidak matang. Pun begitu itulah kerja mereka, bertekak atas dasar kepentingan atas apa yang mereka mahu dan faham. Emosi mereka hanyalah pada waktu dan ketika itu, bila waktu rehat atau habis sidang, mereka pun bersidang, bertepuk bertampar dan gelak ketawa antara sesama mereka, tidak kiralah sama ada calon kiri mahupun kanan. Mengapa kita yang di kalangan penyokong ini pula sanggup melayan emosi berlebihan yang berpanjangan? Teringat saya kepada nasib yang menimpa seorang sahabat yang dulunya sekitar tahun 1974 sewaktu masih belajar di universiti aktif berdemo memperjuangkan hak dan kebebasan. Sudahnya dibuang universiti dan kenyataannya hanya dia yang terkontang-kanting bangkit dari zaman gelap menuju terang. Adakah mereka-mereka yang mewakili persatuan yang disokongnya waktu itu datang membantunya melepaskan diri dari masalah dan belenggu hidup yang dihadapinya? Tidak ada siapa pun yang indah akan nasibnya...itulah kenyataannya. Pun itulah namanya perjuangan,  melayan emosi darah muda. Kita boleh menyesal kalau itu yang kita mahu tapi hidup adalah proses. Kita akan melalui proses demi proses dalam hidup kita. Hari ini sahabat saya itu duduk dan bahagia atas landasan yang dia sendiri faham akan apa cerita dan apa mahunya dalam hidup ini. Mereka bercerita tentang prinsip, kebenaran dan intergriti, bukankah itu hanyalah retorik semata? Ada mereka itu berjuang tanpa sebab dan alasan? Semuanya atas dasar kepentingan semata. Kita perlukan ruang untuk diri kita. Tidak ada siapa yang akan menebas lorong semak yang akan kita lalui itu melainkan kita sendiri yang akan melakukannya. Kita berjaya atas usaha kita. Itu yang perlu kita banggakan! Dunia politik hari ini tidaklah sama dengan zaman dulu-dulu. Kalau dulu orang politik tidaklah berkepentingan sangat dalam bab dan hal-hal dunia. Itu sebabnya orang-orang Melayu terutamanya di kalangan warga emas sangat sayangkan parti yang mereka naungi sejak dulu sampai hari ini. Dulu ramai orang politik yang kerjaya mereka cuma di kalangan guru-guru sekolah. Jadi hormat rakyat sangat tinggi terhadap mereka. Mereka memang bekerja atas dasar semangat dan perjuangan yang murni. Hari ini ramai golongan peniaga masuk politik dengan harapan akan dapat banyak projek untuk poket sendiri. Yang senang makin senang, sampai rakyat pun menyampah. Wakil rakyat datang melawat menjelang pilihanraya 5 tahun sekali dengan imej glamour dan kemewahan, nak tunjuk kepada rakyat tapi adakah rakyat hairan melainkan banyak persoalan mungkin bermain dalam otak fikir mereka. Berapa pendapatan wakil rakyat? Walhal mereka hanya wakil untuk rakyat yang memilih mereka. Mengapa jurang antara mereka jauh bezanya dengan rakyat kebanyakan? Mana datang duit beli berderet kereta mahal dan rumah banglo bersepah sana-sini? Hanya rakyat yang gilakan materi dan glamour saja yang sukakan mereka. Sudahnya semuanya menuju ke satu arah dan tujuan, iaitu wang dan kuasa. Jelas wang dan kebendaan menjadikan kita jenis manusia yang mudah lupa dan tamak seolah kita akan hidup selamanya di dunia ini. Kadang-kadang saya kasihan juga melihat calon yang sepatutnya boleh menang, tapi kalah pula. Yang patut kalah, boleh menang pula. Kita ada masanya buta dalam menilai kebenaran. Kita sepatutnya memilih wakil rakyat yang sederhana imej dan pekertinya, yang buat kerja dan mampu memberi manfaat kepada rakyat yang memilih mereka. Kerana itu adalah amanah dari rakyat untuk mereka. Seperti kata Iwan Fals dalam lagunya, Surat Untuk Wakil Rakyat: 'Wakil rakyat seharusnya merakyat, Jangan tidur waktu sidang soal rakyat Wakil rakyat bukan paduan suara Hanya tahu nyanyian lagu setuju' Apapun tahniah kepada Barisan Nasional kerana menang lagi walau peratusnya semakin menurun dari musim lalu dan jika merasa masih selesa dengan mimpi indah, susahlah sikit sebab rakyat makin celik. Ini zaman kemajuan, bukan zaman dulu-dulu yang mana ramai rakyat masih buta huruf dan tidak tahu membaca. Saya tidak tahu apa cerita atau apa akan jadi esok hari, tapi seperti kata Bob Dylan, ..'the answer my friend, is blowin in the wind...the answer is blowin in the wind' Jangan pening-pening kepala pasal keputusan pilihanraya, yang paling penting, 'Life's Goes On!' * This is the personal opinion of the columnist.

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Tiada tsunami Cina, kata Shahrir kepada akhbar Cina Posted: 12 May 2013 01:22 AM PDT May 12, 2013 Shahrir Samad: Kehendak komuniti Cina serupa seperti kumpulan lain. — Gambar failKUALA LUMPUR, 12 Mei — Keputusan Pilihan Raya 2013 sebenarnya menunjukkan refleksi kawasan bandar dan luar bandar dan bukannya berdasarkan kepada pecahan kaum, kata Tan Sri Shahrir Samad dipetik laporan akhbar Cina. Kenyataan Ahli Parlimen Johor Bahru itu dilihat tidak selari dengan partinya, iaitu beberapa hari selepas bekas timbalan menteri Umno, Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah, turut menepis keputusan pilihan raya baru-baru ini adalah disebabkan "tsunami Cina". "Umno menang di 88 kerusi dalam pilihan raya kali ini yang kebanyakannya daripada kawasan pendalaman di Sabah, Kedah dan Kelantan," kata Shahrir dipetik laporan Sin Chew Daily hari ini. "Daripada keputusan itu, selain mengatakan perpindahan pengundi Cina, ia seharusnya dinilai dari aspek berbeza, iaitu perbandingan bandar dan luar Bandar." Shahrir turut berkata kehendak komuniti Cina juga serupa seperti pengundi kumpulan lain, apabila berkata pilihan raya perkara pokoknya adalah pertandingan antara BN dan PR. "Ada pihak mengatakan apa lagi Cina mahukan, apa yang Cina mahu sama seperti pengundi mahu, kerajaan dengan prestasi dan tata kelola yang baik. "Ramai pengundi Cina memilih calon PAS tidak bermakna mereka sokong PAS nak laksana hudud, tapi kerana mereka yakin Pakatan Rakyat, kerana pilihan raya adalah masa untuk memilih antara BN ataupun PR," katanya. Perdana Menteri dan Presiden Umno, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, menggunakan istilah "tsunami Cina" selepas keputusan pilihan raya menunjukkan BN kekal berkuasa tetapi prestasi merosot, apabila memenangi hanya 133 daripada 222 kerusi Parlimen. Akhbar Umno, Utusan Malaysia, juga di muka depan pada Selasa lalu mengeluarkan tajuk "Apa lagi Cina mahu?" Sebagai tindakan menunjukkan keputusan pilihan raya dibentuk oleh kaum Melayu menentang kaum Cina. Saifuddin Abdullah: Tidak bersetuju dengan tajuk Utusan. — Gambar failSaifuddin dalam kenyataannya juga berkata tajuk itu tidak seharusnya dikeluarkan, kerana Najib telah bercakap mengenai "pembaikan negara dalam ucapan kemenangannya". Shahrir turut bercakap mengenai cadangan pengerusi BN untuk perkara itu, sambil menambah keutamaan harus diberikan kepada pemisahan bandar dan luar bandar. "Bila bercakap soal pemulihan negara, adakah ia antara kumpulan etnik, komuniti, bandar luar bandar ataupun Malaysia Barat dan Timur? Bagaimana ia akan dilaksanakan?" katanya dipetik Sin Chew. "Bagi saya, apa yang perlu dilakukan bukan pemulihan perkauman, namun masalah bandar luar bandar, terutamanya dengan kumpulan berpendapatan rendah sederhana di kawasan bandar terus meningkat, walaupun kumpulan berpendapatan rendah dijaga rapi, kumpulan berpendapatan sederhana tidak menerimanya, mungkin menyebabkan kumpulan ini tidak gembira."

Penganalisis: Memenuhi kepentingan rakyat perlu dijadikan agenda utama MB Selangor akan datang Posted: 12 May 2013 12:11 AM PDT May 12, 2013 SHAH ALAM, 12 Mei — Para penganalisis politik berpendapat sesiapa jua yang dipilih pucuk pimpinan pakatan pembangkang sebagai Menteri Besar Selangor akan datang, perlu mengetepikan perbezaan politik dan sebaliknya bekerjasama rapat dengan kerajaan persekutuan untuk menyelesaikan pelbagai isu yang melanda penduduk negeri itu. Pensyarah kanan Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) dan penganalisis politik Prof Madya Dr Sivamurugan Pandian berkata, kini penduduk Selangor amat mengharapkan kehadiran seorang pemimpin yang mampu membuat keputusan serta dasar yang boleh memenuhi kepentingan mereka. "Saya berpendapat, masanya sudah tiba bagi MB akan datang bekerjasama rapat dengan kerajaan persekutuan untuk menyelesaikan isu yang sejak sekian lama membelenggu penduduk Selangor, terutama berkaitan bekalan air. "Kerajaan negeri perlu bekerjasama dengan kerajaan persekutuan, tanpa mengira perbezaan politik antara mereka, dan memastikan semua keputusan yang dibuat kelak, tidak membebankan rakyat," katanya kepada Bernama. Keputusan pilihan raya umum ke-13 (PRU13) menunjukkan PAS dan DAP masing-masing memenangi 15 kerusi di Dewan Undangan Negeri Selangor, manakala PKR memperoleh 14 kerusi. Dr Sivamurugan berkata daripada segi etika, MB Selangor akan datang bertanggungjawab memberi keutamaan terhadap pembinaan loji rawatan air Langat 2 untuk memastikan wujudnya bekalan air bersih yang mencukupi bagi Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya dan Selangor hingga 2025. Katanya MB berkenaan juga perlu merupakan seseorang yang menyandang jawatan penting parti, sekurang-kurangnya di peringkat negeri, serta memiliki pengetahuan mendalam tentang urusan mentadbir negeri. "Sebagai pemimpin negeri, MB berkenaan perlu memiliki kriteria itu untuk memastikan tiada seorang pun boleh membayanginya dalam apa jua cara pun," katanya. Ditanya siapakah calon yang paling layak untuk mengisi jawatan itu, Dr Sivamurugan berkata pada hemat beliau, Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim berkemampuan untuk menerajui negeri itu bagi penggal kedua. Abdul Khalid, daripada PKR, kali pertama dilantik sebagai MB Selangor pada 13 Mac 2008. Beliau juga merupakan orang pertama daripada kalangan pemimpin pembangkang yang dilantik sebagai MB Selangor. Kesemua 13 MB Selangor sebelum ini adalah daripada Umno, parti komponen utama Barisan Nasional (BN). Sementara itu, penganalisis politik dan perunding media Anbumani Balan berkata penduduk Selangor mengharapkan seorang MB yang berdedikasi untuk berkhidmat kepada mereka dan sebagai pemimpin yang boleh menjamin wujudnya pembangunan berterusan di negeri itu. "Selangor sebuah negeri penting, yang begitu hampir dengan Kuala Lumpur serta Putrajaya dan sesiapa saja yang dipilih sebagai MB akan datang, perlu mengelak daripada memberi tumpuan semata-mata terhadap isu yang timbul daripada pentadbiran sebelum ini," katanya. Anbumani berkata MB yang baharu nanti perlu melibatkan semua pihak, termasuk pemimpin parti komponen BN, pertubuhan bukan kerajaan (NGO) dan penduduk dalam proses membuat keputusan. "Sesiapa saja yang dipilih sebagai menteri besar akan datang bukan saja perlulah disukai oleh ketiga-tiga parti dalam pakatan pembangkang, tetapi juga oleh semua pihak," kata beliau. Anbumani berkata beliau percaya 'perang proksi' sedang berlaku berhubung isu pemilihan MB Selangor dan perkara ini boleh mengundang bahaya jika berlarutan lebih lama. "Kepimpinan pakatan pembangkang di Selangor perlu membuat keputusan tegas dan berani tentang pemilihan menteri besar ini, dengan mengambil kira mandat besar yang diberi rakyat kepada mereka pada pilihan raya umum baru-baru ini," katanya. Polemik tentang siapa yang wajar dilantik sebagai MB Selangor akan datang menjadi perbahasan hangat antara pemimpin parti pakatan pembangkang dan hingga kini, tiada keputusan muktamad dicapai mengenainya. — Bernama

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